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90 Heller
| Issuer | Ortsgemeinde Neuhof (Commune of Neuhof, Upper Austria) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown on a fine guilloche underprint of interlocking vine and scroll motifs, with ornate vertical border panels on each side. The central field carries a multi-line redemption and anti-counterfeiting text in Roman type, followed by the designation of the issuing authority and the printed name of the local mayor. The edition designation appears in the lower left and lower right corners. |
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| Signature(s) | Franz Himmelbauer (Ortsvorsteher) |
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Neuhof is a small rural commune in Upper Austria, and this 90 Heller note is exactly the kind of hyper-local emergency scrip that flooded Austria between 1919 and 1922. The collapse of the Habsburg monetary system left small municipalities unable to obtain sufficient small-denomination coinage, and thousands of Gemeinden responded by printing their own — the Notgeld phenomenon at its most granular. The denomination itself, 90 Heller, is characteristically awkward, chosen to fill a specific gap in local transactions rather than conform to any tidy arithmetic.
Franz Himmelbauer signed as Ortsvorsteher — village headman, not a banking official. His signature is the sole guarantee backing this note.